Talk:Muhammad Yunus

Suggestion To Add SIgnature
I suggest to add signature of Yunus, which is available in his website! --Tito Dutta (Talk) 10:59, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
 * An image of his signature is available at http://bteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hiressignatures.png. This image is from the document referenced here and here. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 22:35, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Microfinance and Its Discontents
In general I find the article very uncritical of microfinance. It should at least include a reference to Lamia Karim's book Microfinance and Its Discontents (2011). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.86.13 (talk) 21:14, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Controversy
The article is currently listed as a good article, but there are some obvious issues under the controversy section (citation needed tags as well as the large tags at the top of the article). The factual accuracy one has been up since March 2011. Has anything been done to address the issue or should this be delisted? AIR corn (talk) 01:32, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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Dr. Morduch's comment on this article
Dr. Morduch has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Lots of detail about Yunus, but it's hard to see through it all to get at what matters. The articles on microcredit and microfinance presumably discuss the key ideas. So instead what's here is much more personal and gives too much space to sensationalistic allegations of one kind or another, most of which have been investigated and amount to little (but I get that it's fair to mention them). What feels strange is that there are real, substantive questions about the success of microcredit/microfinance, especially around over-indebting millions of poor families and about Yunus's foundational claim that most poor people want to be entrepreneurs but just lack capital. That's not clear. Many it seem would rather have steady jobs if given the chance. Yet this level of question gets no space here. The brief section on "Criticism of ideas" offers nothing really. Someone in the Guardian wrote that microfinance was a "Neoliberal fairytale." But what does that mean? And why? And what's wrong with using loans for "consumption smoothing" rather than business (if that's what borrowers deem is best)? The idea that Yunus's ideas were first tried by Khushi Kabir at BRAC could be right at some basic level. (I'd never heard that before and I've worked on microfinance for decades, including in Bangladesh.) Many were trying similar things (so why point out just her? - more common is to point to earlier efforts in Brazil by Accion -- and others). But this all misses the big point. There were tons of small efforts to try to help people borrow. Yunus was the only one who managed to start building a real, functional bank that did it, one that grew and eventually came to serve 8 million borrowers in Bangladesh. All of that is lost here. The general problem is a difficulty seeing beyond the bits and pieces to put emphasis on the key parts and identify holes in the narrative."

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 * Reference : Michal Bauer & Julie Chytilova & Jonathan Morduch, 2008. "Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence From Rural India," Working Papers IES 2008/28, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, revised Nov 2008.

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See also section
The See also section is currently composed of articles related to notable people of Bangledeshi backgrounds. I don't believe this is the primary category or context in which people reading this article are interested. I would suggest it be replaced with notable figures in development economics and especially development finance institutions. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 22:28, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Controversies are disproportionate and overwhelmingly unsourced
Many of the "controversies" discussed in this article were proven to be false allegations and/or nonsense. More significantly, they are overwhelmingly sourced from non-existent domains. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 05:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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